Editors:
- The Editor team for the handbook is first-rate. Cindy Barnhart holds several positions at MIT. She is Chancellor of MIT, Co-Director of MIT's Center for Transportation & Logistics, Co-Director of MIT's Operations Research Center and she is a full professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at MIT
- Barry Smith is Chief Scientist for Sabre Inc. and a leading practitioner developing new mathematical and computational solutions to problems in the Airline Industry. He has been called on to develop new solutions for a wide range of airline problems
- The airline industry is an especially heavy user of Operations Research throughout its operations. Many hundreds of OR professionals new work in this area, either as employees of airline companies or as members of consulting firms that focus on the problems of companies involved in transportation, including especially airlines. A substantial number of academics also do research and consult in this area. Therefore, this handbook should attract a great deal of interest
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 169)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book reviews Operations Research theory, applications and practice in seven major areas of airline planning and operations. In each area, a team of academic and industry experts provides an overview of the business and technical landscape, a view of current best practices, a summary of open research questions and suggestions for relevant future research. There are several common themes in current airline Operations Research efforts. First is a growing focus on the customer in terms of: 1) what they want; 2) what they are willing to pay for services; and 3) how they are impacted by planning, marketing and operational decisions. Second, as algorithms improve and computing power increases, the scope of modeling applications expands, often re-integrating processes that had been broken into smaller parts in order to solve them in the past. Finally, there is a growing awareness of the uncertainty in many airline planning and operational processes and decisions. Airlines now recognize the need to develop ‘robust’ solutions that effectively cover many possible outcomes, not just the best case, “blue sky” scenario.
Individual chapters cover:
Customer Modeling methodologies, including current and emerging applications.
Airline Planning and Schedule Development, with a look at many remaining open research questions.
Revenue Management, including a view of current business and technical landscapes, as well as suggested areas for future research.
Airline Distribution -- a comprehensive overview of this newly emerging area.
Crew Management Information Systems, including a review of recent algorithmic advances, as well as the development of information systems that facilitate the integration of crew management modeling with airline planning and operations.
Airline Operations, with consideration of recent advances and successes in solving the airline operations problem.
Air Traffic Flow Management, including the modeling environment and opportunities for both Air Traffic Flow Management and the airlines.
Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Cynthia Barnhart
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Dallas, USA
Barry Smith
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantitative Problem Solving Methods in the Airline Industry
Book Subtitle: A Modeling Methodology Handbook
Editors: Cynthia Barnhart, Barry Smith
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1608-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-1607-4Published: 21 December 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8856-0Published: 03 March 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-1608-1Published: 22 December 2011
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 462
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Industrial Organization, Regional/Spatial Science, Civil Engineering, Organization